What is Power Apps?
Power Apps enables businesses to build the apps you need, or extend your Dynamics 365 system with additional capabilities to bridge functionality gaps. The ‘low-code’ approach to app design means that little technical experience is required and developers can take advantage of the point-and-click functionality to build the apps which are fully customised to your business requirements.
Easily connect Power Apps to data, adding logic and gaining insight, alongside sharing the apps amongst coworkers so everyone is able to take advantage.
Examples of Power Apps
We can build applications for almost any scenario. Below are a few examples of what we have built for our customers and other examples of where apps can be used.
Holiday Planner
Lead Capture for Sales
Empower your salespeople in the field to capture leads via an app, as opposed to waiting till they’re back in the office. Features like business card scanner also enables information to be gathered instantly.
Support Technicians On-The-Go
Enabling field workers to enter data when out in the field – E.g. logging repairs needed or notes relating to site inspections.
Employee Expenses
An employee expenses app, allowing your employees to enter details of any expenses and attach photographs of receipts for easy tracking.
Simplify Onboarding
An onboarding app to streamline the experience for new team members. Track member profiles, relevant tasks, documents, etc. instead of managing this process manually.
Event Registration
Create an event registration app which enables attendees to register and check-in, then automatically collect their details in your database.
Why use Power Apps?
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Solve business problems: Build apps to solve your business problems that don’t require code
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Apps tailored for your needs: Customise apps to suit your needs and optimise them for specific tasks and roles
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Connect your teams: Build apps that connect your teams like never before and ensure everyone is working with the same data
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Create innovative experiences: Take advantage of technology to increase productivity, such as using the camera on your mobile to capture data
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Easily connect data: With over 200+ connectors, data to and from apps can be easily connected
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Easy App creation: Simple drag-and-drop functionality means creating an app requires no development knowledge
Microsoft Teams + Power Apps
With the embedded Power Apps Studio in Microsoft Teams, organizations can create, edit, and share low-code apps that connect to data from Dataverse or more than 400 other data sources, easier than ever before. The apps built with Power Apps are also natively responsive across all devices, for an enhanced end-to-end user experience.
Power Apps Portals
Power Apps Portals enable external users to interact with selective Dynamics 365 data and capabilities within a low-code, responsive, personalized website. Leveraging the strength and flexibility of the Power Platform, you can bring user-friendly portals to your organization.
Portals are a specific app type that is created and launched in Power Apps using a simple designer. These external-facing websites allow users outside an organization to sign in with a variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or view content anonymously.